November 2, 2009
Jack Harris (Associate Professor of Physics) has been selected as one of this year’s Young Faculty Awards by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is one of 33 “rising stars” across the country to receive the accolade.
DARPA, which is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), chooses junior faculty for its YFA program each year and supplies funding, mentoring and exposure to the agency in order to help them develop research with potential DoD applications. The science spans a number of diverse fields, from energy to manufacturing to neuroscience.